Christmas Virus Warning
Discussion
Hey guys, I'm not a big computer person but just recieved this email and thought I should pass on the details:
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING:
You should be alert during the next days:
Do not open any message with an attached file called 'Merry Christmas'
regardless of who sent it, It is a virus that opens as an Open Log Fire
and will burn the whole hard disc in your computer.
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address
in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all
your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to
receive the virus and open it.
If you receive a mail called 'Merry Christmas', though sent by a friend, do
not open it and shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst
virus announced, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most
destructive virus ever.
This virus was discovered in November, and there is no repair
yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector
of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
Does anybody else know anything else about this?
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING:
You should be alert during the next days:
Do not open any message with an attached file called 'Merry Christmas'
regardless of who sent it, It is a virus that opens as an Open Log Fire
and will burn the whole hard disc in your computer.
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address
in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all
your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to
receive the virus and open it.
If you receive a mail called 'Merry Christmas', though sent by a friend, do
not open it and shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst
virus announced, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most
destructive virus ever.
This virus was discovered in November, and there is no repair
yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector
of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
Does anybody else know anything else about this?
When you get stuff like this google it befeore you post it or send it out to your mates...
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/merry-christmas-virus-h...
The idea of these things is that the email itself is viral and wastes resources as well meaning people like you forward it round the world.
Regards,
Mark
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/merry-christmas-virus-h...
The idea of these things is that the email itself is viral and wastes resources as well meaning people like you forward it round the world.
Regards,
Mark
There's a few persistent characteristics of these emails that can help you identify them as hoaxes:
- There's an exhortation to forward it to everyone you know
- Microsoft, AOL and other organisations are mentioned, although the email doesn't come from them (Microsoft don't issue virus warnings)
- The consequences of infection are always dire beyond words
For those joining this thread. Some basics to keep in mind.
Microsoft/AOL/whoever are not tracking the message, they will not be making a charitable donation based on the number of times your spam your friends. Microsoft make considerable charitable contributions regardless.
The American Red Cross (and Red Cross in general) IS a charity, it helps people (alegedy) they are not going to make a donation TOO charity based on your random clicking.
If an offer in an email appears to be too good to be true... it usually is.
People do not give a shit about poems, random thoughts for the day and other twee nonsense, please, do not forward them, you ARE spamming. I have a collection of horse porn reserved for retaliatory strikes on people who send me this crap.
If you fail to send a message on 5/10/20 times... nothing will happen to you. Absolutely nothing.
There are more ways to get a malicious program in to your computer than via e-mail (but it is used) and their are more people out there who will run anything and expect nothing in return, twee lights, log fires, dancing santas and other assorted shit are neither required nor useful things for virus writers to incorporate. You are far more likely to be infested having used Internet Explorer and surfed the net.
Microsoft/AOL/whoever are not tracking the message, they will not be making a charitable donation based on the number of times your spam your friends. Microsoft make considerable charitable contributions regardless.
The American Red Cross (and Red Cross in general) IS a charity, it helps people (alegedy) they are not going to make a donation TOO charity based on your random clicking.
If an offer in an email appears to be too good to be true... it usually is.
People do not give a shit about poems, random thoughts for the day and other twee nonsense, please, do not forward them, you ARE spamming. I have a collection of horse porn reserved for retaliatory strikes on people who send me this crap.
If you fail to send a message on 5/10/20 times... nothing will happen to you. Absolutely nothing.
There are more ways to get a malicious program in to your computer than via e-mail (but it is used) and their are more people out there who will run anything and expect nothing in return, twee lights, log fires, dancing santas and other assorted shit are neither required nor useful things for virus writers to incorporate. You are far more likely to be infested having used Internet Explorer and surfed the net.
TheLearner said:
For those joining this thread. Some basics to keep in mind.
Microsoft/AOL/whoever are not tracking the message, they will not be making a charitable donation based on the number of times your spam your friends. Microsoft make considerable charitable contributions regardless.
The American Red Cross (and Red Cross in general) IS a charity, it helps people (alegedy) they are not going to make a donation TOO charity based on your random clicking.
If an offer in an email appears to be too good to be true... it usually is.
People do not give a shit about poems, random thoughts for the day and other twee nonsense, please, do not forward them, you ARE spamming. I have a collection of horse porn reserved for retaliatory strikes on people who send me this crap.
If you fail to send a message on 5/10/20 times... nothing will happen to you. Absolutely nothing.
There are more ways to get a malicious program in to your computer than via e-mail (but it is used) and their are more people out there who will run anything and expect nothing in return, twee lights, log fires, dancing santas and other assorted shit are neither required nor useful things for virus writers to incorporate. You are far more likely to be infested having used Internet Explorer and surfed the net.
Excellent, I'll kep this to send back to anyone who sends me virus hoaxes etc....Microsoft/AOL/whoever are not tracking the message, they will not be making a charitable donation based on the number of times your spam your friends. Microsoft make considerable charitable contributions regardless.
The American Red Cross (and Red Cross in general) IS a charity, it helps people (alegedy) they are not going to make a donation TOO charity based on your random clicking.
If an offer in an email appears to be too good to be true... it usually is.
People do not give a shit about poems, random thoughts for the day and other twee nonsense, please, do not forward them, you ARE spamming. I have a collection of horse porn reserved for retaliatory strikes on people who send me this crap.
If you fail to send a message on 5/10/20 times... nothing will happen to you. Absolutely nothing.
There are more ways to get a malicious program in to your computer than via e-mail (but it is used) and their are more people out there who will run anything and expect nothing in return, twee lights, log fires, dancing santas and other assorted shit are neither required nor useful things for virus writers to incorporate. You are far more likely to be infested having used Internet Explorer and surfed the net.
As someone above said, these hoaxes exist to tie up resources. The funny thing is several of these bloody things are on their second even third lap of the planet and if you read them are exceptionally out of date, although the clever ones simply say "November" and fail to mention a year. The REALLY 'funny' thing (sorry about the exploding sarcasm detectors there folks) is in a corporate environment the exact same damn people who brought the mail sever to its knees last year... will do so again this year with the exact same message.
Oddly enough the funniest thing I've ever witnessed was a mail server admit who quashed such a message and got a bollocking for stopping an important safety message getting out. He couldn't prove it was a hoax because he was told you can't believe everything you read on the internet... yet apparently e-mail is a different kettle of fish
Oddly enough the funniest thing I've ever witnessed was a mail server admit who quashed such a message and got a bollocking for stopping an important safety message getting out. He couldn't prove it was a hoax because he was told you can't believe everything you read on the internet... yet apparently e-mail is a different kettle of fish
"This is the worst virus announced, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever."
That's my favourite line. If you ever read that, the mail is obviously rubbish. Gramatically, factually, and possibly any other word that ends in "ally" it's wrong on so many levels
That's my favourite line. If you ever read that, the mail is obviously rubbish. Gramatically, factually, and possibly any other word that ends in "ally" it's wrong on so many levels
buggalugs said:
Don't forget that other virus that's going round - If you open an email with snowball in the subject, it puts icecream in your hard drive and turns your DVD-RW into a pistachio dispenser. True.
Yep - happened to me last week. I haven't bothered removing it as I quite like pistachios.TheLearner said:
I have a collection of horse porn reserved for retaliatory strikes on people who send me this crap.
[cough] YHM [cough]I recieved the email going around about the Olympic torch virus or some such bo
ocks 
Sad thing is, it was sent to me by a chap who is very very clever, runs several multi-million quid a year turnover businesses etc and has also been around IT for a long time.
One of my companies supports his field offices so he trusts us on IT issues, however even after we told him it was a hoax, and showed him the Sophos website where they show it is a hoax, he was still unsure because his senior IT man at Head Office sent it on to him
Some people should not be allowed to advise on computers I tell thee...
ocks Sad thing is, it was sent to me by a chap who is very very clever, runs several multi-million quid a year turnover businesses etc and has also been around IT for a long time.
One of my companies supports his field offices so he trusts us on IT issues, however even after we told him it was a hoax, and showed him the Sophos website where they show it is a hoax, he was still unsure because his senior IT man at Head Office sent it on to him
Some people should not be allowed to advise on computers I tell thee...
zcacogp said:
TheCarpetCleaner said:
... he was still unsure because his senior IT man at Head Office sent it on to him ...
Perhaps the "Senior IT Man at Head Office" was having a laugh at his expense? ...Oli.
- he was MOST unimpressed when he found out it was a hoax, more to the fact he had sent it off to some off his friends as wellsimba1 said:
buggalugs said:
Don't forget that other virus that's going round - If you open an email with snowball in the subject, it puts icecream in your hard drive and turns your DVD-RW into a pistachio dispenser. True.
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